Amadou bamba biography of mahatma gandhi

          Cheikh Aḥmadou Bamba Mbacke, or 'Amadou Bamba' was born in AH () into a family of Qa'dirī scholars from the line of Shaykh.!

          Amadou Bamba

          The Senegalese religious leader Amadou Bamba () was the founder of the Mourides, the strongest and most influential African Islamic brotherhood in black Africa.

          Amadou Bamba was born in M'Backe, Senegal, into a Wolof family of Toucouleur origins, the son of a minor Islamic holy man and teacher.

          Shaykh Ahmadou Bamba ranks with such apostles of peaceful militancy as Mahatma Gandhi, Abdul Ghaffar Khan, and Martin Luther King Jr. His adventures begin.

        1. Shaykh Ahmadou Bamba ranks with such apostles of peaceful militancy as Mahatma Gandhi, Abdul Ghaffar Khan, and Martin Luther King Jr. His adventures begin.
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        3. Cheikh Aḥmadou Bamba Mbacke, or 'Amadou Bamba' was born in AH () into a family of Qa'dirī scholars from the line of Shaykh.
        4. Cheikh Aḥmadou Bamba Mbacke was born in AH ( AD) into a family of Qa'dirī scholars from the line of Shaykh 'Abdu'l-Qādir al-Jīlānī.
        5. This book presents Ahmadu Bamba as one of the pioneers of decolonization and non-violence in West Africa to examine his legacy as a man of unshakable faith.

          6. A charismatic personality, Bamba aided in the mass conversion of the Wolof peoples from tribal paganism to Islam at the end of the 19th century, becoming the founder and marabout of the Mouride sect of Islam. Many Senegalese looked to the Mouride brotherhood for leadership and organization in the fight against the colonial invaders.

          Fearing a holy war against the Europeans under Bamba's inspired leadership, the French exiled him to Gabon from until November , and again to Mauritania from June to

          After , however, fear of a popular uprising in Senegal declined, and the French began to regard Bamba in a new light.

          Upon his urging, thousands of his followers volunteered for